Lucy POV*
The story of how I got married isn't normal. Usually, you date for a while but, nope not me. And no I did not get an arranged marriage. But, no matter how weird my marriage is, I still love him and he loves me. Plus we a very functional relationship so, there are no divorces in the future. But, I'm not here to talk about how great my marriage is (it's amazing). I'm here to tell you how it came to be. It all started 18 years ago when we're eight.
Third Person POV*
It was a sunny spring morning. The sky was a brilliant shade of blue with white colored clouds scattered across the sky.
There was a slight breeze which blew blonde hair into the face of a little girl exiting her bus the enter the elementary school. She made a "pft" sound trying to spit it out of her mouth. An immediate fit of laughter broke out from a pink-headed little boy about the same age.
"Arg, Natsu stop laughing!" she yelled.
"I can't" he responded in fits of laughter "your face was hilarious"
Another little girl came over to the pair.
"Hey guys!" said the girl
"Juvia! Thank goodness your here. I need someone who isn't a complete idiot to hang out with." the blonde pleaded
"Well, Juvia is here."The bluenette known as Juvia said.
Another dark-haired boy walked over and Juvia immediately swooned.
"Gray-sama!!!!!!!" she yelled.
"Hey Juvia, Lucy is Natsu ok" Gray asked. By Natsu was on the floor groaning.
"Oh. He'll be fine, I just kicked him in the crotch." She stated matter-of-factly.
"What he did flamebrain this time?" knowing his best friend must have done something stupid again. Meanwhile, Juvia hung onto his arm like a sloth to a tree branch. The pinkette shot up.
"Nothing Ice Princess," he said.
"Guys we should go inside," Lucy said and they all walked in.
Time skip to recess*
At recess, Juvia had somehow roped Gray into 'marrying' her during reading time. So as all elementary school marriages go, the best friends of the bride and groom, Lucy and Natsu, were the maid of honor and best man respectively. After the 'ceremony' all the kids who witnessed it had a celebration of sorts.
"Hey Lucy, do think we would ever get married?" Natsu asked.
"Well, it would be weird since we're best friends." She said. "And I would never marry someone shorter than me." She said slyly.
"Hey, I could grow taller than you! And then we totally get married." He said offended.
"Sure shortie when that happens, I'll marry you." She responded confidently.
"I'll hold you that," he said.
"Ok, whatever you say." She giggled and walked away to go congratulate Juvia.
5 years later Lucy went to an all girls boarding school. She still kept in touch with Her friends back home and was extremely excited when Juvia's parents decided to send her as well. All four kept in touch through technology and the friendship never really faded. Until college Lucy, Juvia, Natsu, and Gray all went to different colleges. They would text sometimes but, not as much anymore each of them moving on with their lives. It wasn't until about two years after they graduated college that Lucy even thought about them.
It was Christmas time, the powder white snow covered the ground. Two black boots walked across the shoveled sidewalk carefully as to not slip. Lucy has come back to Hargeon to spend time with her family. Other years she spent time at her apartment in Magnolia. Lucy would usually be too busy modeling and writing articles for a magazine. Originally she was just a model to make some cash while she wrote her novel. But soon realized that her passion was journalism, it was exciting. It took a while but, the publisher and editor finally let her write an article. And they liked it so much that she could write other ones. Although all of them had to be about fashion and beauty. For reasons of other writers getting jealous about a model writing a news article. But Lucy didn't mind as long as she was able to write.
She felt the crunch of ice under her foot and looked down. There was ice all along the sidewalk but, she needed to get home. And her house was just passed the ice, it was too late to turn back now. So as slow as possible Lucy walked across trying not to slip. She almost made it. Unfortunately, the glimpse of a face from so many years ago made her slip. Lucy's face cringed when she hit the ground. Upon hearing muffled laughter her head snapped upwards to glare at the unsuspecting victim. Of course, it was her pink-haired childhood friend.
"Natsu! Seriously, You haven't seen me for years and your first response when you see me is to laugh," she yelled. Unfortunately, this only made him laugh harder.
"Sorry Luce. Your clumsiness is always funny." He replied still laughing. This made her flush with anger. Lucy popped back up as Natsu walked over. She could immediately see that he was a good 8 inches taller than her. He became more lean and muscular. But, his hair and grin were exactly the same. It actually made him look hotter. It was clear they both grew into very attractive people. They stared into each other eyes. Their bodies were about 10 inches apart. No one said anything. Until about 2 minutes Natsu said,
"I'm taller than you" he smirked.
"So?" she said clearly confused.
"I'm taller than you, which means…" his arm snaked around her waist pulling her in closer. "We're getting married."
"What?" she said shocked and confused. She leaned back.
He continued to smirk, "Remeber when Juvia and Gray got "married" in elementary school?"
"Yeah, but what does that have to do with us getting married?" Lucy replied still utterly confused.
"Well, we made a deal remember that?" He said trying to lad her on. Then something is Lucy's mind popped.
'The deal, oh fuck' Lucy thought
"Weeelllll," he said seeing as lucy was deep in thought trying to figure out why she made that deal.
"Yeah, I remember,"she said hanging her head it stupidity of making that deal. Of course, he would grow taller. Even if Lucy was above average on the female growth scale.
"We made that deal in 3rd grade." she replied hugging him back.
"So
Lucy took advantage of the moment to push him down on the ice in retaliation for him laughing at her.
"What the- Lucy!" he yelled as she ran away laughing. Natsu immediately got back up and chased her down the street.
Bonus*
5 months later they got married. And for some odd reason, their parents and friends were all ok with it. They would keep saying "I knew you two would get married anyway."
And when they got married, this time Juvia and Gray were the maid of honor and best man.
